What is Pegasus, the notorious spyware WhatsApp defeated in court? 7 points

WhatsApp, on Thursday, won a lawsuit against NSO Group Technologies, the company behind the notorious Pegasus spyware. To give you a quick recap, back in 2019, the Israeli company was accused by Meta of infecting and surveilling phones of around 1,400 people for two weeks.

According to a ruling by a US court judge Phyllis Hamilton, the company had not only violated the state and federal US hacking laws but also infringed WhatsApp’s terms of service. The judge also said that he had asked NSO Group to provide Pegasus’ source code earlier this year, but after they repeatedly failed to comply with the order, she granted WhatsApp’s request to sanction NSO Group.